The Labyrinth is a children’s movie. The main character is 16 years old, and solving a logic puzzle that will literally decide if she lives or dies. In fiction, characters are faced with realistic challenges: ones they can solve, even if they have to make... (more…)

:shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell. - xonsh/xonsh... (more…)

I have a bit of a love and hate relationship with bash. I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and bash is my default "programming language". Sometimes I tell people that find, grep and xargs run their infrastructure, and they laugh and laugh until they r... (more…)

Last month, we released a new way to quickly review pull requests by listing the changed functions or methods in the pull request file finder. Now Python enthusiasts can quickly identify changed fu... (more…)

One of the special things about software engineering as a profession is the possibility of ars-poetic work: part of our work is building tools that target our own work; perhaps a few surgeons around the globe can design and meld their own scalpel, but for... (more…)